Preparation Thrust

Stab your foe with your sword, inflicting vulnerability. — In-game description

Preparation Thrust

Profession

Revenant (skill list)

Weapon

Main hand sword

Activ. type

Chain

Sequence

 →  → 

Game link

API

29057

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0.5½  

Preparation Thrust

Stab your foe with your sword, inflicting vulnerability.

 Damage: 275 (0.75)^?

 Damage: 147 (0.4)^?

 Vulnerability (6s): +1% Incoming Damage, +1% Incoming Condition Damage

 Number of Targets: 3

 Range: 130

— In-game description

Related traits

Corruption

• Pact of Pain — Conditions you apply to foes last longer, but conditions applied to you also last longer.

Devastation

• Targeted Destruction — Deal increased strike damage to targets based on their vulnerability stacks.
• Dance of Death — Applying vulnerability to foes grants stacks of Battle Scars. The healing from Battle Scars is increased while you are below the health threshold.

Notes

• The whole sequence takes 2.05 seconds.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.6 to 0.4.
May 14, 2019	Lowered damage for the full sword attack chain sequence by about 10% in PvP.
July 26, 2016	Added a skill fact for the number of targets.
January 26, 2016	The damage of this skill has been reduced by 11%.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Preparation Thrust has been added to the game.